( Method ) How to know if a shopify store is making sales ( how many )

[Mohamed ragab]

Hi,

This easy trick can make you determine wheather to work in a niche or not by finding if your competitors are making sales or not.


Have you noticed something?
Shopify displayes the exact number of orders made in their stores + 1000.
If there's a new store that uses shopify it will start from thousand.

In the example in this image, this store got 87 sales.

So, The method is basically:
finding a competitor who uses shopify.
Choosing the lowest priced item.
Making an order.
You now found the number of sales.
Asking for a refund.

Note: the number displayed in shopify is the number of sales made in this store not for a specific product.

Thanks

 

[SEOzack]

Hi,

This easy trick can make you determine wheather to work in a niche or not by finding if your competitors are making sales or not.

View attachment 138260
Have you noticed something?
Shopify displayes the exact number of orders made in their stores.
If there's a new store that uses shopify it will start from zero.

So, The method is basically:
finding a competitor who uses shopify.
Choosing the lowest priced item.
Making an order.
You now found the number of sales.
Asking for a refund.

Note: the number displayed in shopify is the number of sales made in this store not for a specific product.

Thanks

Are you taking about the order number?

 

[Mohamed ragab]

Are you taking about the order number?

Yes

 

[Naroha]

Actually shopify starts with #1000 not zero

 

[Mohamed ragab]

Actually shopify starts with #1000 not zero

Thqt's right. I'll edit the thread. Thanks

 

[TheVigilante]

Wtf asking for a refund just to yes this @Mohamed ragab ???

 

[digital_dan]

So spend money ~$12 on each store to find the one performing well.
Then request refund for all 100 stores

I like this method!

 

[wood9404]

Yes it work.

 

[Mohamed ragab]

Wtf asking for a refund just to yes this @Mohamed ragab ???

Cancel order*. Better?

 

[Mohamed ragab]

So spend money ~$12 on each store to find the one performing well.
Then request refund for all 100 stores

I like this method!

Why spend?. You just need to ask to cancel the order. I find it better than spending 1000$ in facebook for the new phase to make sure the product works.

 

[Crazycam727]

You can edit the order number format

 

[Bonzibuddy142]

You can edit the order number format

Exactly what I did when setting up my Shopify. Didn't want to seem new so edited my order number format to start from a higher value.

OP's method is not foolproof

 

[B2S]

87 sales in what timeframe ?

a day
a week
a month
a year

useless that number if you don't know the timeframe

 

[Oussz]

Hi,

This easy trick can make you determine wheather to work in a niche or not by finding if your competitors are making sales or not.

View attachment 138260
Have you noticed something?
Shopify displayes the exact number of orders made in their stores + 1000.
If there's a new store that uses shopify it will start from thousand.

In the example in this image, this store got 87 sales.

So, The method is basically:
finding a competitor who uses shopify.
Choosing the lowest priced item.
Making an order.
You now found the number of sales.
Asking for a refund.

Note: the number displayed in shopify is the number of sales made in this store not for a specific product.

Thanks

Is this method still working for you ?

 

[Alber N.]

this technique not actually work when you start selling every person have different product winning so always try to find problem solution product its makes you profitable

 

[abdelbarada]

Nowadays you can select the number that it starts our from. Can be any number

 

[quynhuyen]

To find out if a Shopify store is selling well, you can use competitor analysis tools (like PPSPY, Koala Inspector) to view sales reports for the past 15 days.

 

[nissay8]

Yes

 

[thierrybo]

That's a pretty clever workaround for checking competitor sales, though doing a refund just to snoop feels a bit ethically gray, to be honest. While it's a neat hack for market research, personally I'd rather focus that energy on building something unique than just copying what others are doing